Primary Lessons and Resources

Significant people

Discover a curated collection of KS1 and KS2 resources designed to bring history’s most influential figures to life. Quick Teach offers engaging lesson plans, in-depth biographies, dynamic multimedia content, and original primary sources—all tailored for teachers seeking to inspire curiosity and develop knowledge. Dive into the stories of a diverse range of significant people and the challenges, achievements and impact they have had on the world and children’s everyday lives.

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READY-TO-USE RESOURCES AND LESSON PLANS

Expertly crafted KS1 and KS2 lesson plans and ideas covering a diverse range of significant people from Y1 to Y6. Quick Teach provides everything you need for this popular primary history topic, including biographies, fact files, video footage, stories and much, much more.

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Unlike other resource platforms, Quick Teach allows you to see each lesson plan’s prior and subsequent steps to build a robust series of lessons that help children progress, regardless of their knowledge of the topic or starting points.

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Explore dynamic timelines, narrated videos, artefact picture cards, knowledge organisers (available on Maestro), information sheets to help you bring the stories of a diverse range of significant people to life.

Our Significant people lessons & resources cover:

Kings and Queens of Britain such as Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror; Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, and Elizabeth II.
Explorers such as Roald Amundsen, Neil Armstrong, Vasco da Gama and Matthew Henson.
Activists and pioneers such as, Elizabeth Fry, Emmeline Pankhurst, Florence Nightingale, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks.
Artists and designers such as Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, James Rizzi, Yayoi Kusama, Chris Ofili and Vincent van Gogh.
Scientists and palaeontologists such as Isaac Newton, Joseph Lister, Marie Curie and Mary Anning.

English packs

This topic includes a range of thematic English packs for each curriculum project.

Novel studies

A range of novel studies are also provided for KS2 projects.

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